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Old 10-Jan-2008, 16:19
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Question Why should "be" be here?
Hi all,

I'm an Japanese English teacher. I have a question about a seemingly exceptional order of "be" in a sentence.

I encountered the following phrase on the Internet the other day:
"If the world ended tomorrow, what would be your last meal?"

Will you tell me why this "be" can be placed ahead of the subject? This position of "be" seems natural to native speakers of English as I got far more hits for this sentence in Google than when I put "be" after the subject though the latter sentence should be grammatically correct.

Folks, where should "be" be placed to sound natural? And if you think the same as Google says, why do you feel it's natural? What makes it allowed to be exceptional?

- Ricky319
Last edited by ricky319; 10-Jan-2008 at 16:21. Reason: mistake in grammar
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